Remedy for hog-cholera



in which it has been administered.

UNITE STATES ATENT FFICE.

GEORGE HITE BEOKXVITH, OF OHARLESTOWVN, \VEST VIRGINIA.

REMEDY FOR HOG=CHOLERA.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 361,741, dated April 26, 1887. Application filed July 16, 18 86. Serial No. 208,196. (No specimens.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE HrrE BEoK- WITH, of Gharlestown, in the county of'Jefferson and State of Vest Virginia, have invented a new Specific for Hog Cholera, of which the following is a specification.

As the result of experiment and observation for several years in the treatment of hogcholera, I have discovered a medicinal remedy for that disease which has proved to be efficaciousin the great majority of the many cases It is composed of mandrake, sulphur, carbonate soda, charred coffee,and chlorate of potash,in equal, or nearly equal, proportions by weight. These are reduced to powder and intimately mixed.

The part of the mandrake (or may-apple) I employ is the root. The soda is conveniently found in the form of the ordinary bicarbonate commonly sold and used. The coffee, either in the form of the berry or as a coarse powder, is burned until it assumes a black or very dark shade.

The mixture or compound is obviously strongly alkaline and adapted to act on or stimulate the liver, which I have found to be an indispensable quality in all remedies for hog-cholera.

The remedy is administered most conveniently by mixing it with liquid food-such as bran slop or kitchen slop. Take one-half gallon ofthe latter and add one hundred grains of the above mixture. This'constitutes a dose for a swine of full, or nearly full, growth, and should be administered every second day until the disease shall disappear. I also strongly recommend the addition of one tca'spoonful of pure spirits of turpentine to the above quan tity of slop. Tar should likewise be applied to the inside of the feedingtrough twice a week.

This remedy is equally valuable as a prophylactic. As such its administration should be begun in the early part of summer and sometimes in early spring, when the days are warm and dry. It may be given as often as above directed. Brood-sows may take it from four to six weeks after bearing. It should be given once a week to hogs that are being fattened for slaughter.

To define more fully the novelty of my compound, I will state that mandrake and sulphur and the alkali known as salsoda have been employed for the cure of hog-cholera, in conjunction with lime, garget, saltpeter, copperas, and ginger. This compound is, however, intended to and will act very differently from mine. In brief, its composition indicates that the fecal discharges are to be checked by counteracting agentsviz., astringents-whereas my compound acts chiefly upon the liver and is not astringent, or but slightly What I claim is The improved remedy for hog cholera, 

